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Charities and churches are also trying to catch people that fall through the flimsy government safety net.

But then, he had death living with him inside his flimsy little shirt already. Hard to see how it would matter if death came any closer.

One would replace the flimsy "fair comment" defence (which easily gets tied up in questions of fact) with a new one of "honest opinion" .

My guess was that Clarissa would not be back before midnight, so I abandoned myself to my serious, flimsy argument.

These screens look pretty flimsy and like they would fall down in an instant, yet none of them were messed up at all.

It was a flimsy excuse, but there was some kind of logic to it, since the US had never signed the 2001 agreement.

This most visceral and ritual of actions tends to be mediated through a flimsy, poorly conceived amalgam of shapes.

A previous study found that people thought water tasted worse if they drank it out of a flimsy cup, Ackerman pointed out.

That sounds a bit like the notoriously flimsy defence of "only obeying orders" which goes down especially badly with Germans.

Britain's self- image as a so- called pocket- superpower has long been a flimsy conceit ; now it will have still smaller pockets .

The aim was to avoid a repeat of the summer of 1994, when tens of thousands of Cubans took to the sea in flimsy boats.

Studies show that "bad pals" can be a bad influence particularly if your child has a weaker relationship with a parent or a flimsy identity.

No matter that the case is flimsy: the court has already declared the key elements of the treaty "not at odds" with the Czech constitution.

And Mr Cameron has shown that his commitment to recasting the state as an enabler and a regulator rather than a monopoly provider is flimsy.

"We, in the scientific community, often give strong advice based on flimsy evidence, " he said. "That's why we have to do experiments. "

It also comes with a 4GB memory support and a flimsy 3MP camera. It surely could have been better than just 3MP.

Hundreds of migrants have died in the past few months trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in flimsy boats.

I would scrawl my name on the cards and the name of one of my classmates on each flimsy envelope.

She had made the table herself out of a box, covering it with flimsy figured sateen, hanging a fifty-cent mirror above it.

The switches in the 2011 Jetta felt flimsy; part of an air-conditioning vent fell off.

I remember this because I had a flimsy internal debate about whether or not to skip the whole suicide thing and get a hotel room.

Many burglars walk right in the front door because the door is unlocked, the lock is easy to pick or remove, or the door itself is flimsy.

Another reason to introduce Eurobonds is that the existing defences drawn up to contain the crisis are starting to look too flimsy.

This was the challenging answer to the flimsy British network of guarantees in Eastern Europe.

If ask to be had absolutely in marriage, absolutely chasteness , the marriage that lacks flexibility so comparatives actually flimsy.

Yet last week proved how flimsy this control is: the gadget was indisputably in control of me.

Do you think such a flimsy explanation will hold water?

How can just help children have good, healthy state of mind, let them be before difficulty and setback no longer so flimsy ?

Even just a layer of flimsy crust, but the tactility is flinty. . .

"It feels so flimsy, " she said. "Wouldn't this thing just disintegrate? "

She was also able to unearth a flimsy manual on how to operate the device.

perennial South African grass having densely clumped flimsy stems; introduced into United States especially for erosion control.

"Here, we are all of the same tribe, " said a young Pashtun poet and journalist. He had a flimsy beard and eyes the colour of honey.

Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a privileged few, corruption remains endemic, and the rule of law is a flimsy pretence.

Don't use a dollar store extension cord with a flimsy, thin rubber sheath to get power to your HDTV.

The first question the agencies will have to answer is: how on earth did this flimsy boat slip through the surveillance cordon?

The public-policy case for keeping mergers domestic may be flimsy but the business rationale is stronger.

The person of exterior adamancy, heart and certain adamancy? The person with flimsy surface, is the heart certain and flimsy ?

These anonymous and sturdy stainless steel tags are lightyears better than the flimsy old paper and elastic ones.

For most of that time, the nests were collected from caves by skilled climbers using flimsy bamboo trellises.

When Alona Fromberg-Elkayam, the branding agency's president, approached the employee, she says she was met with flimsy excuses.

Investigations in that case exposed a flimsy skeleton of iron wires being used instead of steel to hold together the building.

Ditch the flimsy faux-silk ribbon in favor of a thicker, less synthetic one from a craft or fabric store.

The flimsy -walled material has incurred substantial scraps and witnessed a product yield of only 3% so far.

He needs calcium from her milk to build flimsy bones.

Bad press about exploding batteries and high radiation in some flimsy phones scared off some customers as well.

The plant's tendrils now hung from their ceilings like flimsy chandeliers, with bees and flies dancing around the rotting bulbs.

The euro is poised to finish the year much where it began: whipsawed by Europe's debt tinderbox while holding to potentially flimsy support.

As so often, the real mystery is how such a big fraud could have been built on so flimsy a base.

As communism collapsed, his books, once read only in flimsy, blurred carbon copies, could all be published legally inside the Soviet Union.

e. g. It's the money that spurs these fishermen to risk a long ocean journey in their flimsy boats.

What? You mean strap myself to a flimsy kite? No, thank you! Next!

But if weak ties are too flimsy to offer us much in the way of real support, why are we so keen to have them?

Tangshan steelmakers acknowledge that their unexpected revival is built on flimsy foundations.

My old phone was cheap and flimsy, and it started acting up after only a few months.

Overcrowding and flimsy construction meant that houses perched on steep slopes were no match for the torrents.

The person of exterior adamancy, is the heart very flimsy ?

He also made flimsy promises of legislative reform and elections for the rubber-stamp parliament in February.

That illogical qualification shows how flimsy is the argument that capital punishment is a deterrent to murder.

The earthquake survivors, meanwhile, are grateful for the aid they are receiving, but many are worried about their flimsy shelter.

Due to their flimsy construction, mobile homes are particularly vulnerable to tornadoes.

A very flimsy scheme it was; however, it was immediately executed.

Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania's Zanzibar islands have banned flimsy plastic, and also required a minimum thickness.

A closer inspection of these arguments would reveal how flimsy they are.

A close inspection of these agreements would reveal how flimsy they are.

When automobiles were first used, flimsy and inexpensive tourist cabins were built beside the highways.

A close inspection of these arguments would reveal how flimsy they are.

Curtain of night arrives, feeling flies violently, what just discover oneself is flimsy with helpless.

It would be flimsy testament indeed.

After a brief flurry of interest, most astronomers decided the evidence of Nemesis was pretty flimsy, and the idea went away.

Disease: Fingernail hair is yellow, pale, lacklustre , flimsy, crack easily.

Elastic members of simple shape offer greater potential for stability than those that are unwieldily flimsy, or asymmetrical.

Weak ball-handlers are flimsy and weak with the dribble while good ball-handlers are strong with the dribble.

THE flimsy manuscript pages of J. G. Ballard's dystopian novel "Crash" are scrawled with corrections in blue ink.

This conclusion will make dialectics as a universal law flimsy if the self-changes and developments of human's thoughts are denied.

Social cohesion between rich and poor, or between different political parties, is flimsy.

Beware of costumes made with flimsy materials and outfits with big baggy sleeves or billowing skirts.

Critics claim that misleading recruiting lures students into programmes that leave them with heavy debt and flimsy skills.

Most Australians thought the dingo was a flimsy excuse.

Many of the trailers are just flimsy boxes. Others are painted brightly, or sport day lilies on a small lawn.

This failure threatens to unravel a flimsy diplomatic consensus that dates back to the 1997 Kyoto protocol.

The centre console suffers the most with the ashtray and cubby hole covers feeling extremely flimsy.

Some observers have drawn attention to the fact that such assumptions themselves rest on flimsy foundations.

Then, as in Yokohama, fires spread, fueled by flimsy wooden houses and fanned by high winds.

A close inspection of this argument would reveal how flimsy (groundless) it is.

We were punished for a flimsy reason.

The safety-net beneath the euro zone's third- and fourth-biggest economies is flimsy, and investors know it.

We don't even bother anymore to negotiate with the flimsy civilian government in Pakistan.

The older generation still saves, with lingering memories of privation and the country's flimsy social safety net.

Dull knives, flimsy cutting boards, and one small pot certainly won't make you fall in love with cooking.

An architect draws designs on flimsy paper, and her buildings stand up through earthquakes.

Well, if you're like most people, you'll hide behind a flimsy belief that everything will sort itself out.

Flimsy housing, poor health and inadequate health care mean that natural disasters of all kinds hurt them more.

Can firm backside also have tear? Shed tear to you can become flimsy ?

Therefore the ecological environment is flimsy.

The Wright brothers proved otherwise on December 17th 1903, making a series of short flights in a flimsy, single-propeller plane.

Mobile homes are notoriously flimsy in tornadoes, and accounted for more than half the tornado deaths in 2009.

The stated goals of al Qaeda are flimsy excuses, meant to cover-up this ineluctable fact.

Though this may seem a flimsy reason to you, it is reason enough for me.

This house is so flimsy that it is hardly habitable.

The generals claim the investigation is a witch hunt against them, based on flimsy, unsubstantiated evidence.

Of inferior quality; flimsy or unsubstantial.

If you're ever fired or laid off, you quickly realize how flimsy the illusion really was.

shivering They stood shivering in flimsy white muslin gowns.

Instead it makes me think him flimsy and slightly untrustworthy.

Let me feel flimsy personalty. how to protect ourself when we face present complex society?

With their flimsy construction and dismal sound, they resembled and performed like children's toys.

The internet, by contrast, feels flimsy, faddish and open to abuse.

China isn't the first country to seek protection for its companies on flimsy grounds.

You'll hide behind a flimsy belief that everything will sort itself out.

Lacking firmness OR strength; flimsy.

In Tal as many as 12 people are crammed into flimsy shelters patched together from reeds and plastic sheets.

"To some, this round trip illustrates how flimsy market consensus can be, " says Mr El-Erian.

thin paper; flimsy voile; light summer dresses.

Under new regulations, flimsy bags under 0. 025 millimeters thick are banned and shopkeepers must charge for carrier bags.

Flimsy collagen means lines and wrinkles.

Thus they are hardly to understanding that our fault always hurt their heart when they flimsy .

On other issues too, the charge of betrayal looks flimsy.

How does the accession with flimsy psychology do?

I won't be put off with such flimsy(unconvincing) excuses.

Flimsy balloons filled with acid.

It cost him nothing, emotionally, to attack romanticism, which was merely the flimsy veil that hid the fine features of American life.

To some, this round trip illustrates how flimsy market consensus can be.

We walked into the tent, which was filled with fluorescent lights and bulky electronic equipment set on flimsy foldout tables.

In many places the policy levers look flimsy.

a flimsy table; flimsy construction; a fragile link with the past.

Unrelated men and women now live in close quarters, the flimsy canvas tents providing little privacy from prying eyes.

The evidence against him is rather flimsy.

Mr Brown's green New Deal looks similarly flimsy.

The G20 summit produced flimsy promises of restraint.

The evidence against him was flimsy.

It is not a flimsy cheap imitation. It is the real thing.

Actually a lot of apparently staunch people are flimsy in heart.

The peace we seek in the world is not flimsy peace.

Bridges are flimsy by comparison to islands (and even more so to worlds! ). They can be torn down by storms or time.

Mo, is with flimsy (silk) paper putting on the original top to write or draw.

I won't be put off with such flimsy excuses.

Tough goodbye to flimsy bin bags?

Why are hearts of some person surface adamancy flimsy however?

This kind of paper is flimsy.

Not firm or solid; flimsy.

Is life flimsy firm still?

It's not flimsy, nor a poor choice.

These are needed to construct all buildings except flimsy timber and chuck tents.

Weak or thin; flimsy.

They start flimsy and they get substantial as time goes by.

I am very firm in the eye of others, but my heart is very flimsy , , my constant is not happy, , how should I do?

On the other hand, the supervisor's credit is flimsy because of his great possibility of rent-seeking.

Some are flimsy, as, for example, "I left it at home. "

a husk of flimsy consciousness ready to be torn off at a moment ' s notice

Excuses for not handing work in on time vary. Some are flimsy, as, for example, "I left it at home. "

Excuses for not handing work in on time vary. Some are flimsy, for example, "I left it at home. "

flimsy house that shake to the wind

changeable elastic flabby flimsy fluid fragile loose slack soft unsubstantial weak

Research on the Crucial Technology of Non-crystalloid Flimsy Alloy Machine

The charge-sheet against commodity speculators is flimsy

Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:

the story is flimsy , and its structure is absurd

slender frail delicate flimsy thin svelte

three fluffy feathers fell from phoebe ' s flimsy fan

Fuzzy Sliding-mode Control for Liquid Level of Molten Steel Smelting Noncrystalloid Flimsy Alloy Line

too flimsy for anything but the most mundane cold beverage;

Have only a flimsy grasp of

cold, I take the clothes home to the flimsy clothes to the students wear;

Construction Tent: These are needed to construct all buildings except flimsy timber and chuck

A9. I bought this white sectional desk, but it was a mistake! It's so flimsy~